Highway-marking device



April 12; 1927.

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UNITED STATES ISAACE. .HANS ON', OF BLACKWELL, OKLAHOMA.

HIGHWAY-MARKING DEVI-CE.

Application filed July 1, 1926. Serial No. 119,889.

This invention relates to marking devices for highways, and has for its primary object to ,provide a means whereby traffic indicating lines may be properly applied to streets or highways in a novel, simple, and errpeditious manner, and this without any painting skill on the part of the operator.

It is today generally the practice to provide pedestrian areas at street crossings, car

stops and the like, and to also mark a highway at the center thereof where the same becomes curved or elevated, in order that motorists will be guided in maintaining their machines at the proper side of the roadway with the end in view of preventing accidents and the hogging of roads at such danger ous points.

' Up to the present time in so far as I am aware the marking of the streets and highways in a manner as indicated above has been performed by skilled painters employing the usual paint bucket and hand brush which is a very tedious proposition requiring a considerable amount of time in the marking of but a small area of the street or highway.

It is therefore a further object of the invention to provide a marking device wherein the paint may be readily applied in the correct manner and this without requiring much time or skill upon the part of the operator.

Other objects will become apparent as the nature of the invention is better understood,

the same comprising the novel form, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawing and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved highway marking device.

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a rear elevation.

Figure 4 is a detail longitudinal section,

and

- Figure 5 is a bottom plan view.

Now having particular reference to the drawings, my novel marking device constitutes the provision of a paint tank 5 of suitable shape and capacity provided at its upper open side with a conventional form of lid 6 provided with .a hingedsection 6 whereby the tank may be easily replenished after the paint has been discharged therefrom. The bottom wall of the tank is inclined as clearly'disclosed in Figure 4 in order that the paint will freely flow toward the front end thereof. The opposite side walls of the tank depend from the :bottom wall thereof 'and w'hen the device is in use the lower edges of the side walls rest upon the "highway surface as clearly disclosed'in several of the figures.

At the forward end of the tank 5 the bot tom wall is equipped with a paint discharge pipe 7, the lower end of which is provided with a conventional form of gate valve 8 that may be moved to open or closed position through any means desired, preferably of the construction disclosed. Directly behlnd the discharge pipe 7 between the side walls of the tank and beneath the bottom wall thereof is a paint spreader block 9, the lower end of which terminates a slight degree within the lower edges of the side walls and serves as a means for effectivel spreading a film of the paint over the highway being marked.

Also disposed between the side walls of the tank rearwardly of the spreading block 9 is a bristle brush 10, the head 11 of which is preferably secured to the bottom wall of the tank in any desired manner. The bristles of the brush are of such a length as to contact the surface of the highway so as to facilitate the proper application of the paint to the highway being marked.

In order to facilitate the movement of the device over the highway surface, the tank 5 is equipped with a suitable form of rearwardly extending inclined push handle 12. Said tank is also preferably, though not necessarily supported at its front end by wheels 1313 mounted for rotation upon the opposite ends of an axle 14 extending transversely through the side walls of the tank beneath the bottom wall thereof and between the pipes 7 and spreading block 9. At the rear end said tank is supported by the roller 14: mounted upon an axle 15, said roller being mounted between the side walls of the tank so as to roll over the line of paint and serve to force the same into the roadway pores.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a highly novel, simple and eflicient form of highway marking device that is well adapted for all the purposes heretofore designated and even though I have herein shown and described the invention as consisting of certain detail structural elements it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be made therein Without affecting the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is In a marking device of the class described, a horizontally elongated paint containing tank having an inclined bottom Wall With its direction of inclination towards the forward end of the tank, a discharge pipe depending from the bot-tom of the tank and including a control valve a pair of spaced parallel Walls depending from the sides of the tank and adapted to glide over the surface being traversed, supporting Wheels mounted upon the forward portions of said Walls, a spreading block disposed between said Walls and spaced rearwardly from said discharge pipe and having its bottom terminating in close spaced proximity to said surface, a brush carried by the intermediate portion of the bottom of the tank and disposed between said depending Walls, and a pressing roller disposed between. the rear end portions of said walls and spaced rearwardly from said brush.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ISAAC E. HANSON. 

